a lot of this stuff, we just relax and laugh at it. and yet on the left, you're not allowed to laugh. so sort of mayor de blasio with the muppets. >> thank you for joining us, here is "america reports." >> john: fox news alert to start us off, new york governor andrew cuomo scandal involving covid deaths in nursing homes could lead to criminal charges. that's from the former assistant attorney general as a democrat faces increasing criticism from both sides of the aisle. hello, and welcome to the monday edition of "america reports" as we kick off a new week, i am john roberts in washington. hi, sandra. >> sandra: good afternoon to you, i am sandra smith. could take action to strip governor cuomo of his emergency powers as republicans are calling for an impeachment commission. so far the biden white house white house is sidestepping

questions on governor cuomo while new york city's democratic mayor bill de blasio is taking a harder line against the governor. >> does not always have to be a "yes" or "no" answer, john, i think the president has focused on his goal and objectives as president of the united states prayed he will work with governor cuomo just like he will work with governors across the country. >> i do not accept the explanation, there needs to be a full investigation, thousands of lives were lost, families deserve answers, we need to get the whole truth and make sure that nothing like this ever happens again. >> senate republicans are calling on new york congressman to look at the election. >> sandra: we will also from some of the grieving relatives with loved ones in a nursing home and died from covid, what they would like to see happen, but we begin with bryan llenas reporting live from brooklyn for us. hey, brian. >> hey, sandra, for the first

time the former acting u.s. assistant attorney general for the department of justice's civil rights division is speaking out for the first time here about how the cuomo administration he says withheld critical covid-19 nursing home death to hold data from the trump ministrations department of justice and also under reported deaths by a third. >> after we learned this information, we went to our sister division, the civil division of the department of justice that asks for the same information for the over 600 private nursing homes in the state of new york, new york stonewalled and did not produce anything throughout the rest of the year, perhaps waiting for a change in administration. >> the docket went on to write in "the wall street journal" in an op-ed that he believes this scandal could merit criminal charges "numerous criminal statutes could apply. it is a crime to make false

statements to the government. it is a crime to conceal information that otherwise obstructs government investigation. the fbi and u.s. attorney in brooklyn are reportedly investigating senior members of cuomo's covid-19 task force as to whether or not they have withheld the data and whether there is a cover-up. sandra. >> sandra: bryan llenas from brooklyn, thank you, and john, as i mention we have the family coming up, they are seeking answers after their mother 92-year-old agnes that they visited every day in a nursing home passed away from the deadly disease. they want answers and we will find out what they are asking for as far as a cuomo investigation. >> john: there are so many of the stories repeated thousands of times across new york state and now with ron kim calling for a cuomo's impeachment, that really ups the political pressure as well appeared we will keep investigating this throughout the rest of the day. >> sandra: thanks, john. >> roaming in front of our front window. and we had absolutely no idea

what it was sitting there. people on the plane, they had a good 30 or 40 minutes of terror the whole time. so i am much more to be on the ground and put up with the brief that we had to be on that plane making it down safe or not. >> john: a colorado man describing the scene after debris from a boeing 777 landed in his front yard. it happened when the united airlines flight experienced engine failure shortly after taking off from denver international airport. still on fire in the air, boeing suspending the use of the 777 operated with a certain type of engine, while the investigation is underway. alicia okun you live in denver with the latest for us. what a terror that must've been for people on board that plane. >> oh, my gosh, absolutely terrifying. and boeing planes have two separate incidents on saturday where engines exploded, you are talking about the one here in denver where passengers on that

flight united 328 saw this out the window not long after take off. the engine known as a product when he failed. >> mayday mayday coming united 28. 932020, heavy mayday mayday aircraft. >> 228, paul and again. >> investigating the possibility two of the engine fan blades played a part. boeing recommends all plans with this engine be grounded in the ff a administrator says inspections of the 777 will be increased, what is really incredible is no one in colorado was hurt, that's the denver suburbs that the plane was over winning explosion happened. they say that metal just came raining from the sky and in the netherlands a similar story, a boeing 747 plane made a landing after a mid air explosion. same engine, different plane.

>> john: it's amusing when you see that debris come down, and missed everything except for a little piece of the tree. incredible. alicia okun you for us. thanks so much. coming up in the next hour, sandra, david ucl who was on board that plane along with all those other passengers headed for hawaii will join us to tell us what it was like when the engine blew. and then the moments after that as they try to get the plane on the ground, did catch another flight by the way. >> sandra: can you imagine looking at your airplane window and trying to remain calm, many were not able to. we will speak too many of them, but you go to that guy who was sitting inside his living room with his wife reading the newspaper and discard it almost like a car crash, never seen one or heard or been near one or in one, when that landed on his front lawn about 15 feet from the living room window. what a story. >> john: there were other little pieces of that engine all over the neighborhood as well.

and nobody hurt. that's the story. >> sandra: another fox news alert on capitol hill, putting finishing touches on president biden's $2 trillion the relief bill. and a full houseboat by the end of the week. we have complete coverage for you. former white house communications director will join us in moments. but we begin with mike emanuel live on the hill from us. if so what are republican saying about this so far. >> sandra, good afternoon, a 600 page bill including what republicans are calling a long list of liberal priorities. $350 billion for governments, 35 billion for subsidies to pay obamacare premiums. $35 for agencies and a billion dollars plus for socially disadvantaged farmers. leading house democrat told me he would like to see some bipartisan support. >> let's come together as

democrats and republicans and get it done. i agree with president biden. i really like to see republican buy in on this. >> it also includes boosting the federal minimum wage which republicans say could hurt companies already struggling during the pandemic. >> the 15 minimum wage, what does that have to do with covid relief? those small businesses are going to have a harder time coming back when you go to a $15 minimum wage. these things have nothing to do with covid. >> it sounds like that minimum wage hike could get stripped out in the senate due to the rules, or a lack of support. but as it stands it's in the bill being considered by the house this week. >> sandra: okay, mike emanuel on the hill for us. >> john: more of what is included in the massive relief bill, let's bring white house communications director alyssa barrett. let's put up what i thought was an interesting excerpt from a "wall street journal" editorial about all of this that said no wonder democrats want to pass all of this on a partisan vote

it is a progressive blowout for the ages. it does little for the economy, but will finance democratic interest groups for years, please don't call it covid relief. but the democrats are insisting hey, you have to go big and you can under shoot. it's more danger to do that then it is to overshoot. >> john, great to be with you. could not agree more with "the wall street journal" editorial. keep in mind just a matter of a few weeks ago president biden promised that he wanted to govern on a bipartisan basis. he wanted to be a president for all americans but he is trying to ram through the biggest stimulus and history nearly $2 trillion without any republican support. and we were both at the white house during the trump administration and able to pass the relief bill with bipartisan support. when you are talking about something of this magnitude, you need to make sure that it has buy in from both sides. and i also know that only about

10% of the relief package actually goes towards public health. to this as a liberal wish list that is meant to benefit democrats and their progressive support in particular space, this is not covid relief. >> john: "the wall street journal" op-ed breaks it all down in terms of spending. there is some spending for coronavirus. and for health as you pointed out, but there is a lot of spending that is not in this according to the editorial all told, the covid related provisions 825 billion, the rest of the bill more than a trillion dollars is a combination of bailouts for democratic constituencies and progressive programs support and unrelated policy changes. some of the more controversial progressive wish list items are federal minimum wage of $15 an hour, $270 million in arts and humanities endowments, 200 million for museums and libraries, 50 million in family planning, funding, and $112 million for bay area rapid transit.

also $1.5 billion for a bridge that connects the united states new york state with canada up near cornwall, ontario. i know that that is a chuck schumer plum, but what does that have to do with coronavirus? >> nothing, and i would add to this, they are still about $64 billion in congressionally appropriated funding for covid relief that is yet to be sent by congress. this is about pushing through democrat priorities, nearly every republican supports the top line of the direct payments to americans, unemployment insurance extension and ppe. when the attack on the massive spending additions that have nothing to do with the coronavirus that you are going to lose republican support. >> john: you mention money from the last coronavirus bill that has not been sent, that's $113 billion for schools, and there is a lot of new money for schools and $1.9 trillion measure, but not spend since

2022-2028. after the pandemic, we believe will be over. >> absolutely, white house press secretary jen psaki would not commit to the fact that this additional money for schools would be committed to schools that are actually very open and actually doing in-person classes, so it raises the question what even is the need for the billions of dollars in school funding if it does not require that you are having in-person education? >> john: looks like the democrats are going to try to put this through to the house on a bipartisan basis. we will see if that holds up, because there are a couple of democrats who have said that they are not particularly fond of this bill. we will see how it goes. as always great to see you. >> thanks, john. >> john: sandra, there's so much money in this that is earmarked for things other than coronavirus relief that has been called a progressive spending blowout. any descriptor that you want to put on it? and you have to look at this and say, what does a lot of this

have to do with approaching the pandemic? >> sandra: steve scalise was on talking about the same thing. more on that coming up, but he is saying we have heard this before, just pass it and we will find out what is in it. it's really important that the american people know what it senate today. fox news alert as the investigation continues at the new york nursing home crisis. governor andrew cuomo face a reelection challenge from the right? plus president biden's nominee in the hot seat for his confirmation hearing a brief recess at this moment. but what he said a short time ago about the future of the john durham probe in the doj investigation into hunter biden, that's next. ♪ ♪ >> i think you are a good pick for this job, but i have a lot of questions about why, about how you're going to run the department of justice. ♪ ♪ it's a new day for veteran homeowners with va loans. with mortgage rates at record lows just one call to newday can lower your payment

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>> sandra: fox news alert, a confirmation hearing underway for president biden's pick to be the next attorney general, merrick garland appearing on capitol hill before the senate judiciary committee today with no risk to add special counsel john durham to stop his investigation into the origins of the russia probe come here without exchange. >> one of the very first things i'm going to have to do is speak with mr. durham to figure out how his investigation is going, i understand that he has been permitted to remain in his position and sitting here today, i have no reason to think that that was not the correct decision. >> former deputy assistant general under george w. bush and also you see berkeley to supreme court justice, always great to have you, thanks for being here.

so i will get to that in just a moment, the probe because we wonder how that goes next under the biden administration. the first or take away so far from what you have heard, what does an ag merrick garland, how should we expect that he will operate if confirmed? >> it's great to be with you, just looking at what has been said so far this morning, merrick garland is showing that he really is one of the more moderate democratic party coalitions. he is not going to be in "woke attorney general. fairly resistant to the idea that the justice department should be used for social engineering for achieving social justice goals at the progressive wing of the democratic party and congress is pushing for. instead pretty careful, talking about focusing on criminal investigations, particularly the january 6 attack on the capital, and a whole lot of other political landmines that has been resistant to how promising he will go, but focusing on the right questions which is how we can do the criminal investigations into the cases.

>> sandra: he did answer the question that he sees no reason why it should not stay in place for those who have a keen interest in seeing that continue, should they believe that it should under merrick garland? >> i think it should and i think that attorney general garland, even though he is good under the federal judge, and is fairly limited in what he can say. if he does not get the job he will go back to the courts and is not low on some of those cases. can't prejudge it, but i trust the justice department has been doing the right thing so far and i will talk to mr. durham, what i will say is that when attorney general barr was asked the same question about the mueller report he was much more forthcoming, i think that he said he wanted the probe to continue. >> sandra: hunter biden was also discussed in this exchange, watch. >> if you discuss this hunter biden case with the president or anyone else mr. mark >> i have

not, the president made abundantly clear in every public statement before and after by nomination that decisions about investigations and prosecutions would be left to the justice department. >> sandra: did that surprise you to say that he has not discussed the hunter biden actuation with the president? >> no, i'm not surprised. and i think if merrick garland were asked to make any promises about the investigation and honorable nominee would turn either the nomination down or refuse to make any other promises. and i think that judge garland is doing the right thing. not a woke attorney general, but staying within the best practices of previous nominees for the republican democrat said i'm not going to prejudge it. and stop an investigation, the one that is currently done by the u.s. attorney in delaware. >> sandra: i will ask you what the future is for andrew cuomo after reading this piece by john

dalke's and "the wall street journal." and the opinion piece like it should be worried about a federal probe and it said numerous federal criminal statutes could make false statements to the federal government. also a crime to conceal information and otherwise obstruct government investigations. and could've been engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and its agencies and possibly obstruct justice. how should governor cuomo be steering a federal probe into his nursing home practices. >> like a lot of new yorkers governor cuomo has tried to talk his way out of it and threaten his way out of it. not going to work. the justice department is on it. and a lot of problems governor cuomo should be worried about. and whether there was a cover up, lying to federal investigators as a crime. obstructing justice is a federal crime. these are both things that might have come up if governor cuomo

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>> john: time now for some of the top stories we are watching at this hour, nearly 500,000 people in the united states have died from coronavirus, president biden's chief medical adviser dr. anthony dr. anthony fauci says americans could still be wearing masks next year. >> sandra: and susan collins of maine said she will vote against the confirmation as president biden picked the budget and management lawmakers criticized for going days after the election, she regretted the posts. >> john: folks across the united states protesting the rise against asian-americans during the pandemic. democrats in single rights groups say the u.s. under pronounced hate crimes. president biden's administration has told the department of justice to expand its reporting of prosecution of such incidents. sandra. >> sandra: the weather may be warming up, but the crisis in texas still far from over even though fewer people are still

under boil water notices, some people scrambling to fix burst pipes. in the meantime some texans facing huge electricity bills days after widespread power outages across the state, live in dallas on that. >> sandra, well the good news is that more and more people are getting access to clean water and the weather is starting to improve. it was in the '70s yesterday and dallas melting away any of the leftover snow, but the bad news is that there are still a lot of people out there struggling to find food and water to drink. in fact many grocery stores are having a hard time stocking some of those essentials. and people are having to line up to get bottled water. and officials are saying that they will not stop working to get people back on track and get them the things they need the most. >> it's not enough for everybody and it certainly is not enough for everybody to get showered, but we are trying to get drinking water to people who need it the most.

>> of having to search for food and water was not enough, some are being hit with huge electricity bills as usage went up, so did the prices in texas is market-based system. to some customers reporting getting bills exceeding $10,000. we heard one report of a bill around $17,000, governor greg abbott here in texas says that he is stopping power companies from cutting off electricity for folks who can afford those big bills and is working with state lawmakers so they can be better prepared for if and when there is a next time. >> we will not end the session until the state of texas and all of its power generation capability is fully winterized so we never go through this again. >> we are also warning more than a dozen people likely died inside their own homes freezing to death from a lack of heat.

>> sandra: jeff paul live in dallas for us. and we have a guest coming up next hour, top of the hour, nicholas marrazzo who is a quadriplegic who received an electric bill for over $3,000 in the middle of all this. he will join us at the top of the hour. >> john: it's amazing some of the bills that they face because of the deregulation and energy prices as demand goes up and supply goes down, the price skyrockets. some people are faced with some staggering bills. we will get to that later. fox news confirming that some republicans are urging new york congressman lee zeldin to challenge governor cuomo when he is up for reelection. at the democratic governor has been on the defense after an aide said his office withheld data on covid deaths at nursing homes before a federal investigation. congressman zeldin joins us now. some democratic donors and influential republicans have said that they want you to run against the governor in 2022, will you throw your head in the ring?

>> what i know for sure on this is that it will do everything in my power to make sure that governor cuomo does not get a fourth term. i'm a proud new yorker, i have a lot of other proud new yorkers who are contacting me as well, and they are basically saying that this is it. we need to go in a different direction or i am leaving, and we all have these experiences within their own family and friends where they are bailing on new york state. they are citing the freedoms that are eroding, the higher cost of living, the erosion of public safety, and even the defendant police movement that we see in new york city, and i really believe that it is one for us to save our state. we would do whatever we can to help whoever we can to make sure that he does not have a fourth term. >> john: it's determined that the best way for you to help out and make sure that he does not get a second term is for you yourself to run, would you do it? >> we will see coming yesterday morning i was on "fox & friends," and gave the

same answer that would apply now, what i need to do next is have a conversation with my wife and my daughters in order to have the right balance for certain elected office. there is no way i would be in congress right now if i don't have that right balance at home, so what i'm going to do next is talk to my wife, talk to my girls, you might be running for the highest ranking position in new york, but i feel like the fourth ranking person just to my own house with the three ladies at home. so that's what is next for me. >> john: i am used to that. so why should your life be any different than mine? how much trouble to get things that governor cuomo is in both politically and legally? >> it feels different the amount of democrats right now who are speaking up with their own personal experiences, elected officials and other former staff members talking about the bullying, "the new york times" just did a base story that goes back and just to the beginning of andrew cuomo's time as

governor, but all the way back to even when he was working with his father when his father was the governor. he has a vindictive bullying style and that has led to not just ron came speaking up about the call that he received, but a bunch of female state legislators are speaking out and had a borough president, so i think you have a lot of democrats that are saying to themselves, three terms is too much for andrew cuomo, and we need to make a change. i think that legally you were just covering it with your last interview, and i believe that this is a real probe, and what he did, not just what the original policy, but the cover-up that followed and just the way that you have the addition from melissa derosa as to why they did not provide information was concerned of the doj investigation, but governor cuomo wants to put out to the public that he was just too busy. he was not too busy to write a self-congratulatory book, but he

was too busy to put out this information. so the stories are not lining up and the consequences are at the end of the day we are talking about all the thousands of lives lost that families that want accountability and justice. so legally he is exposed too. >> john: on the bullying front, even alec baldwin is saying that the bullying is true. think governor cuomo should step down. we will stay in touch with you and we will see what your conversations with the family determine in terms of your way forward, but good to see even you are the last ranking member of your family just like many of us are. good to talk to you today. still ahead, we will speak with family members who say that today lost their mother due to cuomo's nursing home directive. we hear so many emotional stories from family members who lost loved ones and started with janice dean and her campaign to try to shed some light on all of this and we had the family last

week and another one today. it's remarkable. >> sandra: reference those brothers on friday we spoke to saying we are democrats, this is not political. did they just want answers. we will have more on that coming up. meanwhile president biden as house democrats are pushing to pass nearly $2 trillion covid relief bill this week. congress and steve scalise in louisiana says only a small amount of that is actually for -- money for public health. listen. >> this bill is going to borrow money from her kids to give gavin newsom billions more. this makes no sense. it is destructive to the economy. >> sandra: up next david admin will dig into the cost of the bill blue state to bail out. he will join me on sat next. ♪ ♪ values high and mortgage rates at their lowest now's the time to refinance and turn your home equity into money for your family. that's me. introducing refiplus from newday usa.

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>> sandra: so many businesses struggling a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit

new york city. the pandemic has turned new york city into a "ghost town." from the fox business network joining us now, it is. you go up and down the street in new york right now and it is business after business shutting the doors, boarding up their windows and so many of them who thought maybe they could survive a few months are closing. >> i have lived here for 40 years in manhattan and when i arrived it was just coming out of a bankrupt era in the 1970s and arrived in the early 1980s and i went to her of course 9/11. i have never seen new york as the days. >> sandra: it should normally be bumper-to-bumper traffic in the middle of the lunch hour. >> we are in the midst of this covid relief package, but what is going to help new york is not any money from washington, we are talking about trillions and trillions of dollars worth of commerce in cities like new york, l.a., chicago. all of these cities need business. we don't need a bailout from

government governors, they need business. business shutdown is what is causing the future of new york to be in doubt. but it is also the future of l.a. and the future of chicago. it is the future of all the cities that have had all these massive lockdowns that are not temporary, because a lot of the businesses that were locked down supposedly temporarily are not coming back. you talk about a third of the restaurants that have shut down, most of those are not coming back, that leaves about two-thirds, the question is what happens to those businesses? what happens to the city's revenue? the city survives on tax revenue from small businesses that are never coming back. so what happens? new york is going to go into bankruptcy again and i expect the same thing is going to happen in chicago in the same thing in l.a. and other cities. >> sandra: that is all too familiar a site when you walk the streets of the city. in so many are facing a similar problem right now, the amount of money going into the big blue states, i told the viewers he

will do a deep dive. california over $41 billion, isn't this what new york to your point, isn't this what republicans fear that they were struggling prepandemic are going to get a bailout? >> the key as it is mostly not covid relief. it's called a covid relief bill. it's not covid relief, of the $1.9 trillion about 825 billion is covid relief that deals with ppp loans were locked on businesses, vaccinations, testing, the 413 billion use were checks for americans, the free money, but that leaves over a trillion dollars that deals with stuff that has nothing to do with covid relief. let's focus on education for a second, because there is another hundred $70 billion in this bill for education. 95% of that hundred $70 billion loan to be sent to spent until 2022. a lot will be spent up until

2028, so this is long after the pandemic. we have already spent $113 billion on education, 60 billion of which has not been spent yet. >> sandra: will put this in a graphic. k-12 schools just 5% of the money you are talking about allocated in this bill will be spent this year, this fiscal year. homeless assistant, none of it. childhood assessment 23%. how does this help anybody? >> it helps the special interests of the democratic party. the teachers unions, pension funds for unions across billions of dollars going to that. what democrats are doing, because let's face it, there is not a single republican then i know of who is going to vote in favor of the $1.9 trillion package. they are going to do it through reconciliation which is a way of getting around to the old rules that required more than a simple majority. with the simple majority that they have in the senate, one

vote is the vice president voting they will probably get their 1.9 trillion. >> sandra: 's of the businesses say we don't want to bail out, we want to open our doors. >> they need commerce and an end, more than anything else, certainly more than any money from washington that will serve the special interests. >> sandra: it was nice to see last night. >> it was good to be in the studio! >> john: it's not easy being green, disney slapping a warning label on the muppet show saying that it shows stereotypes. is cancel culture coming after kermit? the disney decision and reaction, why cnn is facing accusations of running interference for new york governor andrew cuomo and his handling of the nursing home crisis. howard kurtz ahead. a a look at cnn's ability crisis. a stay with us. ♪ ♪

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>> sandra: senate confirmation hearing continues on capitol hill at this hour, talk about getting kids back in school, let's dip in and listen. >> at what point do you think our refusal of some of the leadership in our schools to reopen becomes a civil rights violation? >> senator, i completely agree with your description of the consequences of the school closing. i tutor two children, and a neighborhood of washington, and most of the students in the school are people of color and i have been able to tutor them by zoom every week, but when they are taking classes by zoom, and it's much more difficult, obviously for them. although they have done terrifically. not because of me, but they have. and it would be with people with

other resources. i don't -- the public officials have to weigh very serious competing concerns with respect of how to deal with covid. there's no doubt about it. on the one hand you have to be very worried about sending kids back in their schooling and on the other hand we have to be very worried about not spreading the disease in a way that kills them or more importantly and more likely their parents or their grandparents. i don't want to be the person who makes that judgment. >> i understand and i get that. i'm sorry to interrupt. >> no, i'm sorry i interrupted you. >> you have written in one of your opinions, i will read i know you have not memorized all of your opinions, but you said the constitution "does not contemplate that the district of columbia may serve as a state

for purposes of the apportionment of congressional representatives." that textual evidence is supported by historical evidence concerning the general understanding at the time of the discharge creation, is that still your considered opinion? >> yes, and i would say that that is the case, one of my earliest cases, which taught me what it means to be a judge, which is to do something the opposite of what you would do if you had a public policy concern. citizens of the district of columbia should be able to vote, but i did not think that the constitution gave me authority on my own to give it to them. and that made me sad, but it reaffirmed my role as a judge. >> in my last 20 seconds i will ask you if you agree with this statement "allowing -- and i'm not suggesting one way or the other, i just want to know what you believe.

allowing biological males to compete in an all-female sport deprives women of the opportunity to participate fully and fairly in sports and is fundamentally unfair to the female athletes. >> that is a very difficult societal question. >> but you're going to be attorney general. >> i may not be the one who has to make policy decisions like that. i'm not adverse to it, but every human being should be treated with dignity and respect. and that's an old writing sense of my old character and an overriding sense of the law requires. the particular question of how title ix applies at schools is one in light of the bostic case which i know you're very familiar with is something that i would have to look at and i want to have a chance to do that. i have not had a chance to consider these kinds of issues in my career so far. but i agree that this is a difficult question.

>> thank you, judge. >> for his first question a member of the senate judiciary committee. >> thank you mr. secretary. thank you, mr. chairman. >> sandra: you have been listening to the confirmation of senator kennedy and louisiana questioning during the process on transgender sports before that school reopening, he continues to debate questions as he is looking for his confirmation in the senate today at this hearing to become the attorney general under the biden administration. we will monitor that and bring you news from it as we get it. >> john: also asking him about the nursing home crisis in new york, he did not go into great depth about it. not a whole lot from merrick garland on that front. the facing accusations of cover to the new york governor andrew cuomo and his handling of the nursing home

crisis. providing a fresh example yesterday failing to mention the scandal, but i guess said this. watch. >> i think the situation in new york is really complicated. certainly there are things to criticize about how the cuomo administration handled data. but the heart of the matter goes back to last year when the state was asking nursing homes to take inpatients, covid patients who were ready to be discharge from the the hospital. we don't see hard evidence that that made a significant difference in covid deaths. >> john: fox news analyst howie kurtz, host of media buzz on sunday joins us this monday afternoon, what did you think when you see that they are? >> i don't see how politifact can claim that andrew cuomo's nursing home policy made no significant difference in deaths even if it was an honest mistake. and to his own admission, his administration spent months

withholding the information that is now believed to be twice as high as the state originally claimed. now with the exception of a couple of cnn anchors who have been tough on the issue, cnn and msnbc have only recently jumped on the nursing home scandal. and that's because with the justice department investigation underway and the democratic assemblyman accusing going on camera and making the rounds accusing andrew cuomo of threatening him in a phone call, the story is too big to ignore. >> john: meghan mccain, daughter of the late senator john mccain made this asser tatian on her show yesterday. >> he has been given enemies, he has made jokes about his life with giant q-tips with his brother. chris cuomo, the adulation and lack of culpability across the board and his way to evade it has been nothing short of journalistic malpractice. >> john: never been known to not be outspoken and came right

out there and basically said that a lot of the mainstream media is giving him a pass. >> look, andrew cuomo was the media darling in the pandemic, now not so much. it's a whole new story according to democrats and others saying that routinely threatens and bullies people. look at the contrast with ted cruz who obviously made a politically tone-deaf blunder taking that cancun vacation during the texas doorman blackout. not going to defend that, but cnn and msnbc have attacked him hour after hour as if he committed a war crime and the contrast really, john is that ted cruz is a conservative republican. and it has gotten some flack on fox as well and most journalists don't like the guy. it's personal. in the case of andrew cuomo many journalists don't want to take on the nation's most prominent democratic governor. so just a real contrast. >> john: the fact that some democrats like ron kim are coming out now and saying that

andrew cuomo should be subject to impeachment, does that now mean that many of these media outlets who handled him with kid gloves no longer can? >> yes, i think impeachment could be far-fetched, but investigations that may or may not play well for the third term governor. when the whole business about the way he does business and the bullying allegations, which people say is just him being strong and tough and getting results is no secret to the press. generic press corps is on the receiving end of some of these tough issues. so the fact that he is no longer able to contrast donald trump has opened up the space now for some accountability here in new york. in the media has an important role to play as this investigation unfolds. >> john: we will keep watching it. always good to see you. thanks. >> sandra: thanks, howie, new criticism of the new york governor andrew cuomo. in moments we will speak with the family whose mother was in a

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>> john: >> sandra: facing an impeachment push and lee zeldin challenging him when he is up for reelection next year. we spoke last hour. >> what feels different are the amounts of democrats right now who are speaking up with their own personal experiences, elected officials and others, former staff members talking about the bullying, "the new york times" just did a big story that goes way back, not just to the beginning of andrew cuomo's time as governor, but all the way back to even when he was working with his father when his father was the governor. he has a vindictive bullying style. >> john: the federal government investigating the governor for potential crimes in "the wall street journal" out with an op-ed about why he should be worried about it. more and the potential charges in a moment. >> sandra: first to the people affected by most of the scum of the family members who lost loved ones. losing their mother took covid

and join us now. why don't you start off for us what your family has gone through? >> as of march 12th when we were locked out of nursing homes and could not visit our loved ones, it was very frightening, because we had no idea what was going on. and then shortly after that we heard about the mandate that would come out to that would allow people with covid to come back in after we were told that if it gets into a nursing home it's going to go like wildfire. so we started questioning everyone that we possibly could about it and we try to find out. we contacted the news media, child 13 local station and the attorney general's office to get more information. and then you know it just happens to be that when you or any a position to make a

decision about lives, you have to have common sense and when you bring back people into a nursing home after you tell people that if it gets in there it's going to go through wildfire. it's pouring gasoline on the fire. and then april 22nd, april 20th my mom got sick and was sent out to the hospital, and she died of covid on the 22nd. two weeks later in the same facility in my father-in-law died of the same thing prayed he was sent out to the veterans hospital. and it has been a nightmare ever since. we just want to get to the bottom of this and find out what really happened. >> sandra: i know that your family has gone through so much, what questions do you have as far as how the data was handed out in the nursing home scandal and what the governor was putting out in the directives that he made at the time that

directly affected your mother? >> we want to know the truth. how it got in there, why did he decide to make this mandate allowing patients back into nursing homes? what are the real numbers. and if he did -- if he made a mistake as we know he did, he needs to own up to it. when justice for our mother and for his father-in-law. and we need to make sure that this never happens again to all the people that are in the nursing homes now. and in the future. >> sandra: what's the message from your family as you hear the governor in these press conferences not taking responsibility, not apologizing for what happened, in fact he points fingers to the misinformation that he said was out in the media that caused the problem, not his policies. >> well, that's him and in his nature. he blames everyone else but himself. that's what a bully does.

and we are just not happy with the whole situation. every news conference comes on and he goes that it's just a fabrication. and this has got to stop. so we are calling for an investigation. i know that the feds with the fbi and the department of justice are investigating, we want an investigation by the legislature nonpartisan, investigation led by speaker casey and majority leader comments. we want them to investigate and please make it nonpartisan. it should never have entered this at all. and he has to be held accountable for what he did. and i hope that also attorney general james continues with the investigation and from the great start that she had when she brought a lot of the information to light from her

investigation. >> sandra: thank you for telling your story. have you tried to have any direct communication with the governor's office, what are you and your family doing right now to try to get the justice you believe your family deserves? >> well, this is an opportunity on your station. we have talked to a lot of different people. we talk to senators, we have been calling assembly women. i called assemblywoman skim's office and told him to keep up the good work. and don't let anyone bully you around, and i talked to his chief of staff, and we appreciate what he is doing and on behalf of all of those who were killed in nursing homes, the 15,000 including her mom and my brother ted's father-in-law. >> sandra: showing beautiful pictures of your mother who raised all three of you, and we

hope that you get answers that you are seeking, we have a picture up on the screen. thank you for being here. >> we appreciate what you are doing. we truly appreciate the opportunity. >> sandra: appreciate you coming on, thank you. john coming in another story just so difficult to hear these people that went through so much. they tried to visit her every single day here in new york. they just want answers. how it was handled was tragic ending for so many new york families. >> john: and the prayers go out to the families and hundreds other in new york as well. and for everyone who lost someone to covid, the situation is just so tragic that again it has been described as fire through dry grass the way that they went through nursing homes. and you can understand. let's bring in former justice department jim trusty to talk more about this. jim, it's good to see you. we heard earlier today from john

dacus who was the acting assistant attorney general of the trump administration and the civil rights division of the doj that began looking into this. he had an op-ed in "the wall street journal" said why andrew cuomo should be worried about a federal probe. it's a crime to make false statements to the federal government and also a crime to conceal information and otherwise obstruct government investigations. new york may have engaged in conspiracy to defraud the u.s. and possibly obstruct justice among other crimes. the first person who asked new york for the information he did not get it. where do you think this is all headed? >> i think he has some good points. and we don't have bedrock facts yet, but we do know that it's an unspeakable tragedy. the folks you just had on, multiply that times how many thousands and how hard it is to survive a situation where you have lost a loved one and are not getting straight answers. but the criminal law does not always track the moral blame or the political consequences. you have to keep those all

separated. and i think it is unlikely that you will see cuomo arrested and perp walked for crimes like murder, manslaughter, reckless endangerment. they are out there for a state prosecutor to try to pursue but it would be very difficult because it was in the middle of the pandemic where there was conflicted guidance, i'm not really holding my breath about that kind of prosecution, that brings it back to the call me just mention, focusing on process and focusing on obstruction. and i think that that's where the federal could lie which is when civil rights is looking into things or the district of new york is looking into things, did cuomo manufacture these stonewall approach, which weather was albany or freedom of information request or doj, and what tips the scale is beyond negligence to an intentional false statement or obstruction is that devastating information when she said we made this conscious decision to not let

information go out to. instead we withheld it because we were worried about federal investigation. there is your intent. so he has a lot to worry about because of that. >> john: using the word stonewalling when he was on "fox & friends." listen the data and we will get your thoughts on the other side. >> new york stonewalled and did not produce anything throughout the rest of the year perhaps waiting for a change in administration, and rosa come meet the top aide said that she admitted that at that point once the investigation was ongoing "we froze because then we were in a position where we weren't sure of what we were going to get through the department of justice and be used against us." >> john: cuomo says that he followed cdc guidelines and reported all the deaths, but if it is true that documentation was withheld by the state of new york and the department of justice because they were worried it might be used against them, is that a crime?

>> yes, it is a central pillar to it. we don't know exactly how the feds were communicating with cuomo where they asking by subpoena? were they asking for a certification that the responses were full and accurate? there's a lot of little details that you have to figure out. but the comment, even if she thought it was helpful at the time is devastating because of a possible criminal culpability. so my take away is keep your eyes on her. and if she leaves his employment anytime soon, he is going to be sweating like nobody has sweated before, because it means there is a big break coming that she will be on board helping out prosecutors and probably flushing out something from a political comment to evidence of will intent. >> john: jim trusty, always good to see you. appreciate your insight. >> sandra: fox news alert, some facing thousands of dollars of energy bills after last week's storm. one of them is nicholas palazzo

who says he received an electric bill for more than $3,000. nicholas, welcome, what happened? >> hi, sandra. thank you for having me. basically i am sitting here getting very cold with my girlfriend and i'm quadriplegic, so i have to keep the temperature up because i have trouble doing meant trouble regulating my body temperature. and about 15 minutes before the cold hit i got an email from my electric provider saying that i needed to switch providers, because the prices were about to go through the roof. and then i started seeing my credit card getting billed $50 repeatedly. and then finally i had a bill up to $3,000 and was trying to switch electric providers, no providers were allowing me to switch immediately, and basically i got stuck with a $3,000 bill that i don't know how i'm going to pay right now. >> sandra: have you reached

out to the provider and asked him for help? >> i have, basically all they do is say, you know, you need a switch providers and you can enter a payment plan. >> sandra: you have obviously been greatly affected by this, and you have an unusual circumstance, where you need more accommodation for the temperature that you keep your home, what has this been like for you? >> it's been pretty tough, i have a nurse that comes every day to help me out, and she lost water and power, so i have been without for an entire week. i'm worried that my electricity is going to go out, my water will go out, so i've been filling up my bathtub and every bowl in my sink with water just praying that nothing bad happens, and i know i am one of the lucky ones that i still have power. my parents power went out for two days and they got stuck with a $5500 bill.

>> sandra: that must've been really scary and i know that so many texans are saying while this is an unusual once in a couple of decades certain thing, they are taking better precautions so they can deal in the future, can you budget and any changes you can make so that you can better handle this if it were to happen again knowing your circumstance? >> definitely in the future i'm going to have to figure out an electric provider that does not have variable rates so that it is more regulated than what it is now, because you never know what is going to happen these days, crazy things happen all the time, whether it's a hurricane or a deep freeze. you need to be prepared going on into the future. >> sandra: i give you credit, it seems like you are maintaining your optimism through this. >> i'm trying really hard, you have to be strong for everyone. >> sandra: that's a good attitude, we appreciate you joining us and our best to you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> sandra: another tough story

that came out of the texas storm, so many still struggling. >> john: they are allowed to pick with power company they want, and some use this wholesale program were typically the rates are very low but in high demand suddenly it skyrockets and is clearly what he got trapped behind. >> sandra: so many changes come out of things like this, they readjust and look at how they can handle a situation and make changes. >> john: sometimes when the rates look too good it's because they are too good. more on texas coming up later this hour and why this crisis shows president biden's green push will only push more jobs to china. for that we will take it to the factory floor one of the few american makers of solar panels. of next republicans are calling on democrats to cut the porch when it comes to their stimulus deal. we will show you what is really in the democrats plan and how much it will cost you. ♪ ♪ >> i hope that everybody in america is taking a look at some

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we will continue to watch the hearing as well and break back and if anything else of particular interest comes along. sandra. >> sandra: the committee holding a markup of president biden's $2 trillion of covid relief package as an investigation looks into items in that bill that are completely unrelated to the pandemic. stephen moore joining us now, former adviser to president trump and economist isn't this the big fear that you get a bill this massive and there's all kinds of stuff packed in there that does not have anything to do with the pandemic? >> well said, sandra. and we are talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in this case that have nothing to do with the pandemic. this is more of the

bernie sanders social welfare bill than it is having to do with the pandemic. by the way, this is likely to be well over 1,000 pages and i see your listening a lot of the things on the screen of programs that have very little to do with covid. their stuff in there for the smithsonian institute environmental justice grants, billions of dollars of foreign aid. there is money in here that the states will be able to use especially the blue states to bail out their pension systems. that rubs people on the red states the wrong way. now texas people are going to have to pay more taxes to bail out the california pension systems. that will rule off a little anger. and one other quick point remember when obamacare was being debated a little over ten years ago there was a big -- remember nancy pelosi said famously, we will read the bill after we pass it, i think that today don't want the american people to see what is in this

bill and a lot of members of congress are telling me, sandra, they are not going to be having time to read the bill before they vote on it. >> sandra: "the wall street journal" agrees with that assessment. the noncovid spending blowout. most of that true true till -- 2 trillion house bill has little to do with the pandemic. at the arts and all these things which you can obviously make the case for it, but is now the time? that is the point for when we know that so many struggling people need help due to the pandemic. put this in perspective and i feel like when we talk about spending, right? and massive amounts of money it goes over our heads, because we don't really know why that is so worrisome, what does it mean for our future and our country and our children and grandchildren with a $2 trillion package? >> its fiscal child abuse is what it is, because the people that are going to pay for you

are not me and you, they are our kids and our grandkids. and in this year alone a deficit of borrowing about $4 trillion is what the democrats are asking for. now that's more money adjusted for inflation, so think about this, and one year we will borrow more money than we did for inflation to finance the revolutionary war, civil war, world war i, world war ii, and the vietnam war. in one year. that is -- we can't defend that. we have to pay our bills as a nation and don't forget one other thing, don't forget that there is also $1 trillion from the previous bills, remember i mentioned this last week that has not been spent. why don't you spend a trillion dollars you already have in the pipeline and then come back and see if we need the 1.9? >> sandra: sometimes you have to sit down and write all of the zero so that you understand how big that number is.

>> it is a million a million dollars. >> sandra: in so many businesses that need to relief, they are saying earlier, i will quote her saying that they don't want ppp, they want gdp. economic growth to get the country reopen and get us back to work. >> we need the businesses open and that is the stimulus, and they are, i got back for florida, florida is open for business paraguay is at it new york or illinois or california? and the point that we have to remember is that when you get the schools open, we can have millions of mothers who want be back in the workforce who can start to work as well. >> sandra: that's a really important story one that we have been following on "america reports," great to have you. and making things worse for new york city, more bad weather out there today. john, it is snowing and raining and just a mixture of both, and we are looking for some

sunshine. >> john: we are supposed to get it a little bit later on. in the studio it is cold today. you can see our breath here in the studio. the freezing rain has stopped and we are expected the sun may crack out a little bit later this afternoon. looking forward to that. speaking of cracking up, an airplane engine exploding over denver just after takeoff. next we will talk to someone who was looking at that very scene, a passenger on that flight that miraculously landed safely. >> if you have ever been involved in a high-speed or automobile crash, that's the sound we heard. and all of a sudden the silver object rolling in front of our front window. ♪ ♪

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scheduled to remain open through march. >> sandra: and the public offering employees $125 gift cards if they get the covid vaccine. the southeastern supermarket chain says they do not have to get it at a public pharmacy to get the gift card. >> john: and boeing grounding dozens of 777 airplanes after the engine failed out of the flight of denver on saturday as you see the scene when they were turning around to try to land again. folks who were on the ground when that flight took off said that plane parts were just raining down in their neighborhood. >> we were sitting on the couch and we heard a loud boom. and it kind of rattled a little bit. and my wife and i just looked at each other and said what was that? the silver object rolled in front of our front window, and we had absolutely no idea what it was sitting there. and then when i stood up to open the door, i told my wife, you're never going to guess what this is. and it's the front column from a jet engine airplane.

>> john: unbelievable as it sounds, kirby clement said his son had just walked out the front door 5 minutes before that happen. let's bring in david to lucia who was on board that united plane when everything went down. he is now safely in honolulu where he completed his trip. so how was the first part of the flight? the climb out, take off, was that pretty routine? >> yeah, it was completely normal. everything was going as planned. the captain came on at about 10,000 feet and he was giving the speech that they normally do and before he could complete that speech, that's when the engine blew. and we kind of dropped down in altitude and the plane just started shaking and vibrating from there on out. >> john: tell me about that moment when the engine blew, what did you hear, how did the passengers react? >> it was extremely loud, there is -- a couple of thoughts went

through my head first may be a bomb, but if it was a bomb, it probably would've exploded. then i went to the engine and said we have lost an engine, and the way the plane was reacting you kind of knew that it was an engine and was nothing other than an engine. >> john: you knew what was going on in the passenger compartment, let's play for you just a little bit of what was going on in the cockpit at that moment. you might not have heard this. listen here. >> mayday mayday, united 28. 328 heavy mayday mayday >> 328 can you call that again. >> united 320, just engine failure, need it confirmed immediately. >> john: the pilots are calm, but you can obviously hear distress in the cabin's voice, what was the flight crew doing

to keep the passengers calm? >> they kept coming on and were periodically briefing us as to what was transpiring. after they knew we lost an engine, they said that we were going to try to return back to denver airport and make a safe landing as opposed to an emergency landing, which was reassuring. >> john: it usually is reassuring when they say a safe landing as opposed to coming in hot like they might in other circumstances. but you and your wife did think that maybe this was it, what were you doing? >> yes, there was one point when we were just pretty much taxing back to the airport -- sorry about that that if if you know the engine is on fire and you know the plane is burning, you know, you are thinking you

could explode at any time. and that thought did not leave our minds until we left the airplane. because even when we were taxiing on the tarmac, you still have that thought in your mind. >> john: you were telling our folks that you and your wife grabbed their wallets and put your i.d. in your pants. >> yes, my wife said put your i.d. and your pants, and i was like why are we doing that? and she said just in case we do go down, they can i.d. our bodies. >> john: oh, my goodness. i mean, you are heading for a vacation in hawaii which is a paradise and next thing you are thinking about who we want to be able to i.d. our bodies if we go down. i mean those two things. >> it is pretty unnerving, it is. and to add insult to injury, we had a board of flight after that and blizzard conditions where we have to deice before we take

off, so it was a rough go. >> john: did you think twice about getting back on the airplane? >> i did, but the old saying, you know, you have to get back on the horse that you fell off of and keep doing it to get the bad memories out of your head. but it was a little unnerving, i'm not going alive. >> john: you have to think, the odds are probably in your favor if you have gone through engine failure, it's likely not going to happen on your next flight. >> exactly, it's not something that happens every day for sure. >> john: we hope that you and your wife get some good downtime in hawaii, if you have to go anywhere after that sort of catastrophe, hawaii is a good place to hang out for a while. david to lucia, we are glad you are still with us and your wife and all the rest of the passengers on that aircraft as well appear to have great vacation. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >> john: can you imagine?

my two worst terrorists are dying by a falling off a building and in a plane crash? >> sandra: he must have a great relationship or not looking at his wife like she was nuts at that moment. but when you listen to the mayday call from the pilot, and i know that you have experience flying a plane, john, in the ground crew said you need to make a turn left or right in the pilot said the left, speak in terms of like north, south, east, west. it struck me as odd. >> john: you would say turn right heading 345 degrees proceed flight level but what i was struck with was you could sense the tension in the pilot's voice, i mean, i have heard emergency calls to the tower where there has been a little more calm in the pilot's voice, so clearly he knew something huge had just happened.

>> sandra: still pretty calm. >> john: they are professionals and you really have to appreciate the fact that they can go through something like that and bring all those souls back down to earth. >> sandra: i hope he enjoys his vacation he and his wife. while next, professor says he shoots up to keep his life balanced. and we must warn you, you might find this next clip disturbing and offensive, at least disney think so. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: yes, it's the muppets. carley shimkus will join us on disney and a disclaimer after that. ♪ ♪ record low mortgage rates have fallen again, while home values just keep climbing. refiplus lets you refinance at record low rates plus get an average of $50,000 for retirement tomorrow

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"work-life balance." carl hart claims in his new book that he snort small amounts of the drug for as many as ten days in a row and enjoys it. the columbia professor says he wants president biden to work towards licensing the legal use of heroin. sandra. >> sandra: as good a story that is, disney plus has a warning for viewers about the muppets. ♪♪ it's time to get things started ♪ ♪ on the most inspirational celebration no ♪ ♪ this is what we call the muppet show ♪♪ >> sandra: that according to disney requires an offensive content disclaimer, carley shimkus and's, why? >> they added a offensive, claim or to 15 episodes. in one episode johnny cash is singing in front of a confederate flag. in another episode steve martin

is pretending to speak chinese and mocking the language. so disney said rather than remove the content, remove the scenes which would be pretty expensive, they have added this label to spark the conversation. i think that people just hear the word the muppet show and offensive content and they just can't really wrap their brains around it, and you know, in a string of things being deemed controversial it's like okay, now it is miss piggy and fawzi bear, what's next? >> sandra: disney offered a statement, rather than removing the content we see an opportunity to spark conversation and open dialogue on history that affects all of us. let's remember disney plus is something we pay for every month to have access to things like the muppets. so post a disclaimer. "saturday night live," are they covering this new presidency? >> so apparently since biden's inauguration, they have not had

any skits featuring the president or anyone in the administration, which is kind of surprising. the show's super political, you would have assumed that they would have covered him in a lighthearted way, still made him likable and stuff like that, but just cannot have him as a part of the show at all surprised me. >> sandra: we are long enough into the presidency to know if they would. i know that adam wade into this a few weeks on them not touching president biden or vice president harrison said that they are scared to. >> if you are watching "snl" at this point, you know what the deal is. you are either or not political at all or a liberal, so they are playing to the audience, but if you think about the treatment of president trump versus not even having joe biden on the show it is pretty surprising. i thought that he would've been a part of the show and they just would have made him some sort of lighthearted likable character, but they are avoiding him at all costs.

they did criticize governor cuomo this weekend in the opening monologue. they went after ted cruz a lot. >> sandra: how many cold opens were donald trump. >> all of them. literally all of them. >> sandra: so good to see you again, be careful of the moffitt -- muppets, john. >> john: have a surprise, but clearly as society has evolved, now to the prism of retrospect may not have been appropriate for these times. we will see. >> sandra: the disclaimers they are. >> john: i'm stunned that "saturday night live" is afraid to take on joe biden, if you are a comedy show, everything is fair game. you know, don't give into the political pressure from the left and not do it. >> sandra: will see if there are any changes. we will watch. >> john: why the green push could send jobs to china and how the crisis in texas that shining light on the problem. we are alive from the solar

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>> sandra: canada taking on facebook promising the tech giant will pay for news content on its platform. after they banned australian news over a proposed bill which would require it and google to

pay australian media for their news links. canada claims it will drive similar legislation in the future. >> john: the crisis in texas putting new light on green energy and president biden's plans come to fruition thousands of american jobs could end up in china. grady trimble is live at mission solar energy in san antonio, texas, with more for us. what is this about? >> well, john, mission solar is one of the few manufacturers that makes their solar panels here in the united states. you can see a panel coming off of the line right now and paul mutschler is with the company and you can speak to this better than i cam, but because you are competing with companies in china it's hard to compete on price with their solar panel. >> it is very hard to compete on price, what we do is focus on our quality to make sure that all the material selection in the end line processes are all at the highest level that can possibly achieve and that's what we go for it. if you get a better quality product here. >> a lot of people might not

know this too, but a lot of the components that go into solar panels come from china as well. in a perfect world that would be the case, right? >> in a perfect world we would have the supply chain right here and hopefully that's one of the goals coming up because we can slight in the supply chain especially renewable energy in the usa. >> well you can't compete on price you are extremely busy because by then continues to push green energy, how busy has it been at this factory? >> it has been very busy, almost booked for the next three months, so everything you see going good, we have a new brand-new production line on the other side to decrease our capacity and have a higher panel output in the next few weeks. >> a few weeks, that was supposed to be next week, but the issues with the power outages in texas over the last week, that slow things down. they were completely off line here at mission solar for about a week, john. >> john: grady trimble with a

great story for americans that work on solar panels. thanks so much. sandra, clearly as you ramp up the push towards green energy coming would like to have american companies in a competitive position, but if you increase the demand too much, american companies are not going to be able to keep up. >> sandra: part of this is a clear plan to those who are directly affected by the transition to layout how they will find work in the near future, right? you can go back to the story about the keystone xl pipeline and just to cancel it without a clear plan or vision of the future for those workers and families is sad. >> john: and you can tell, struck by looking at the factory how few people there are working there. it's not totally automated, but it looks like a lot of it is where as you are out there on the pipeline, your welding and digging trenches and bearing pipe takes a lot of manpower. >> sandra: a story we will follow for quite some time. up next, look at mars like never

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>> sandra: this just in. nasa releasing new images from the perseverance rover just days after it reached the surface of mars. phil keating is live in miami. phil, as promised, perseverance is delivering. >> delivering big-time. new stunning images have been coming back to earth 40 million miles away from mars since thursday when perseverance landed in the crater. >> i got there in under one second, this is moving. >> kilometers. >> brand new video just released by nasa. these are views from a camera

underneath the mars rover. it's the most sophisticated one ever as it slowed down to drop on to the red planet. you can see the scientists and engineers, we're all excited. it was an amazing accomplishment. 300-mile flight over seven months. in amazing high definition, the camera at the most sophisticated rover. you can see the red martian dust blow up as the reverse thruster rockets get close to the surface. now that the roser's mast cam is up, we have 23,000 new images of the martian landscape including shots with the rover in them. nasa has made a 360-degree

panoramic orbiter. >> those are stunning images. no doubt. definitely delivered. love it, john. >> john: it's amazing what we can do. it's incredible. thanks for joining us on "america reports." i'm sandra smooth. >> martha: thanks, john and sandra. i'm martha maccallum. this is "the story." glad you're with us. the covid testing czar gives us a lot throughout this entire pandemic. now she wants to weigh-in over the issue of herd immunity and where rein this country. we'll investigate the lost hours,